Where is the Origin of Meditation?

Today the entire world is rising to the power ofmeditation in those times.
meditation and yoga and these two seem to beSo after it was practiced for some four to seven
the most sought after techniques. But have youthousand years in tantric meditation format, an
ever wondered where did meditation firstIndian yogi Shiva further developed it to the form
originate? History has traces that meditation hasthat most resembles the meditation of today.
been an age old practice in Asian countries suchFrom thereon meditation carried on as an integral
as India, China, Sri Lanka and Japan.part of cultures such as Buddhism and Zen.
Even though noted history of meditation primarilySiddhartha Gautam, the first ever Buddha, is
seems to have originated from Asia, the conceptknown to have given up his kingdom and went to
of meditation is universal - one that appears in allstudy spirituality with two holy men. This
cultures of the world. However, there areobviously signifies that at the time of Siddhartha -
differences in the way this practice is followed inaround 2,050 years ago - meditation was already
different part of the globe.a well-known and fairly widespread concept in
Meditation practices were common amongst tribalIndia. Once Siddhartha learned the art of
South Indian people some ten to fifteen thousandmeditation, it spread across Asia to soon become
years ago. Back then, it was a desire to endurea commonly followed lifestyle practice.
and conquer one's conscious mind. So whenGoing by archeologists' records, meditation was
answering the question, where did meditationoriginated in the capitol city of Indus Valley
originate, this seems to be the most logicalCivilization, Mohenjo-daro which is where the
answer as meditation was certainly a popular andmodern day India and Pakistan are.
common practice in India. It was called as tantric